A Law To Ban Bestiality Has Been Opposed By U.S. Farmers

How we have deprived them of their freedoms, their natural environments, their families.
How we have fed them grossly unnatural diets, regularly restricted their movements to tiny booths, stalls and cages, where they have been unable to even turn around.
All for nothing less than the sake of gluttony and heart attacks.
( Mango Wodzak )

When I eat I have a clear conscience.
If you are a part of this murder machine, regardless of what people say to defend themselves when they eat meat, it’s lodged in the back of the mind that you are dealing in death.
( Benjamin Zephaniah )

To be non-violent to human beings and to be a killer or enemy of the poor animals is Satan’s philosophy.
In this age there is always enmity against poor animals, and therefore the poor creatures are always anxious.
The reaction of the poor animals is being forced on human society, and therefore there is always strain of cold or hot war between men, individually, collectively or nationally.
( A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, 1896-1977 )

It is through mysterious power that we have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbours, even to our animal neighbours, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.
( Sitting Bull )

A Law To Ban Bestiality Has Been Opposed By U.S. Farmers.

Farmers in New Hampshire have said a proposed law to ban the sexual abuse of animals in the state could see them unprotected should they need to touch or intervene with an animal for medical reasons.
Robert Johnson, a lobbyist for the New Hampshire Farm Bureau, said the new bill was not necessary.

Bestiality is still legal in Texas, Hawaii, Kentucky, Virginia, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohio, Vermont, West Virginia, Montana, Wyoming and the District of Columbia, as well as New Hampshire, according to the Alabama Watchdog.

The law is being put forward by Katherine Rogers, a Democrat representative in Concord, who is looking to ban the sexual abuse of animals.
Perpetrators could also be registered.
She said prosecutors needed the law as a “tool” to ensure the practice went punished.
( Jess Staufenberg, 02.03.2016 )  ..  independent.co.uk

Why do we test animals when there are pieces of shit in prison that have raped women and have molested children.
Test it on them.
What the fuck did the rabbit do to you?
( Roger Miret )

When the suffering of another creature causes you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial desire to flee from the suffering one, but on the contrary, come closer, as close as you can to he who suffers, and try to help him.
( Leo Tolstoy )

Horses Recognise Negative Human Behaviour.

Horses can tell whether humans are angry or sad, according to research.
Psychologists at Sussex University showed 28 horses pictures of men with happy and angry faces.
When looking at the angry faces, the horses viewed more with their left eye, a behaviour normally linked with perceiving negativity.
Their heart rate also quickened and they showed more signs of stress, the study published in Biology Letters found.
Student Amy Smith said the horses had a stronger reaction to negative expressions than positive ones.
She said, “This may be because it is important for animals to recognise threats in their environment. Recognising angry faces may act as a warning system, allowing horses to anticipate negative human behaviour.”
( Tom Pugh, 10.02.2016 )

A good deed done to an animal is like a good deed done to a human being, while an act of cruelty to an animal is as bad as cruelty to a human being.
Whoever is merciful even to a sparrow, Allah will be merciful to him on the Day of Judgment.
( Abu Umama, hadith )

Animals are indeed more ancient, more complex and in many ways more sophisticated than us.
They are more perfect because they remain within Nature’s fearful symmetry just as Nature intended.
They should be respected and revered, but perhaps none more so than the elephant, the world’s most emotionally human land mammal.
( Daphne Sheldrick )

How brave and how proud we must be to abuse and terrorise defenceless animals from the day they are born, and then ignore their cries and their screams for mercy before we brutally slaughter them.
( Rose Winfold )

Living A Vegan Lifestyle Makes A Lot Of Sense.

As I learned about the consequences of my food choices and as I recognised that I didn’t have to eat animals, and that eating animals caused the animals to suffer, it caused an enormous footprint on our planet, and it wasn’t healthy, it made sense to go vegan.
And, it’s one of the best decisions I’ve ever made, and I think most people who have decided to go vegan share a similar experience.
It’s very empowering.

And, when I went vegan I actually started eating a wide variety of foods I had never tried before.
Different ethnic foods.
You also start combining things in different ways, you start becoming more creative in the kitchen.

But I went vegan just because it seemed to make sense, and it was aligned with my own values, because I didn’t want to support this system that was so abusive to animals, and wasting and squandering so many scarce resources on our planet.
And it was also healthier, so it was in my interest to eat food that was plant-based instead of animal-based.
Living a vegan lifestyle makes a lot of sense.
( Gene Baur )

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?
Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.
( George Bernard Shaw )

What Is It About Humans That Makes Us So Ignorant?

We have been this way since the dawn of time.
We consume, destroy, wage war, torture, plunder, denigrate others, waste, cheat and lie.
We crave power, wealth and fame.
We are never happy.
We ignore poverty, cruelty, torture, the violations of rights and laws, suffering and destruction.

Did we ever have a moral compass?
Can compassion overcome cruelty?
Can light chase out the darkness?
Can we ever come to the realisation that we must change in order to survive?
Can we change?
Is it too late?

Do we deserve this beautiful planet?
Can animals and the Earth ever forgive us for our ugly, self-serving natures?
When I speak about our appalling treatment of animals I often get a blank stare in return, especially in relation to what we do to animals in the food chain.

Animals have a face, ears, eyes, a nose, a mouth and tongue, skin or fur, a heart, a spine, bones, red blood, a central nervous system, legs and feet and sometimes arms and hands.
They eat and sleep and breed and have mates and give birth to babies.
They teach their young and they have families.
Go to a slaughterhouse and tell them why their lives have no value.
( Rosemary Wright, 06.02.2016 )  ..  abeatingheart.ca

Some people say, “Just because I eat meat, it doesn’t mean I’m not a peaceful or compassionate person”.
But a peaceful life cannot be built on a foundation of violence.
And nothing ‘compassionate’ ever came from a slaughterhouse.
( Jo Tyler )

The Most Inland Breeding Colony Of Kittiwakes In The World.

The Tyne Bridge is among the most recognisable structures in Europe.
Designed by the architects who created Australia’s Sydney Harbour Bridge, it was opened in 1928 by George V and Queen Mary, who crossed in a landau watched by 20,000 schoolchildren.

The bridge is home to some unexpected inhabitants, the most inland breeding colony of kittiwakes in the world.
Normally nesting on coastal cliff ledges, since the 1950s a few birds have nested in buildings along the Quayside, but now more than 700 pairs (at the last count) have followed, using buildings and the bridge.

During the winter they are busy crossing the Atlantic to distant shores, such as Canada and Greenland.
They are only on the Tyne during the breeding season between March and August.
The fourth floor of the Baltic art gallery, a former flour mill in Gateshead, where they also nest, provides a good vantage point.
( Bob Barton, January 2016 )

One of the most commonly warned-about behaviours among children is cruelty to animals.
What is it about adulthood that suddenly makes this behaviour okay?
( Saryta Rodriguez )

Animals trust us and they deserve to be treated well.
But all we give them is fear and suffering and a life in hell.
( Rose Winfold )

Until we are willing and able to make the connections between what we are eating and what was required to get it on our plate, and how it affects us to buy, serve, and eat it, we will be unable to make the connections that will allow us to live wisely and harmoniously on this earth.
When we cannot make connections, we cannot understand, and we are less free, less intelligent, less loving, and less happy.
( Will Tuttle )

As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields.
( Leo Tolstoy )